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I'm not any kind of fan of Joan Rivers but I think we've finally seen the United States (and by proxy the rest of the "first" world) go completely off he deep end. Why don't we just ground all the planes? Then we'll finally be safe from the "terrorists".

from his link....

Joan Rivers deemed a danger to national security, bumped off Costa Rica flight back to U.S.
The New York Daily News reports that comedian Joan Rivers was among the many travelers to get snared in the heightened-security frenzy that overtook airports after the December 25th failed terrorist attack. Rivers wasn’t allowed on her Newark-bound flight in Costa Rica this past weekend by a “jittery Continental Airlines gate agent” who thought the two names on her passport, which reads “Joan Rosenberg AKA Joan Rivers,” seemed “fishy.”

I tend to agree with Stoic on this, and most of the other posters make light of it too...until...

damntexdem (1000+ posts) Tue Jan-05-10 03:41 PM
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6. Gone insane? When did it get sane? How long was it sane?
Seems like we spent the last decade in the deep end, having already gone off.

"The efforts of the government alone will never be enough. In the end the people must choose and the people must help themselves" ~ JFK; from his famous inauguration speech (What Democrats sounded like before today's neo-Liberals hijacked that party)